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Independent media that won't reinforce tribalism. We have one Planet; nobody's leaving so lets reason together!! Darrell McClain is a Military veteran with an abnormal interest in politics, economics, religion, philosophy, science, and literature. He's the author of Faith and the Ballot: A Christian's Guide to Voting, Unity, and Witness in Divided Times. He was born and raised in Jacksonville FL, and went to Edward H white High School,l where he wrestled under Coach Jermy Smith and The Late Brian Gilbert. He was a team wrestling captain, District champion, and an NHSCA All-American in freestyle Wrestling. He received a wrestling scholarship from Waldorf University in Forest City, Iowa. After a short period, he decided he no longer wanted to cut weight, effectively ending his college wrestling journey. Darrell McClain is an Ordained Pastor under the Universal Life Church and is still in good standing as well as a Minister for the American Marrige Ministries . He's a Believer in The Doctrines of Grace, Also Known as Calvinism. He joined the United States Navy in 2008 and was A Master at Arms (military police officer) He was awarded several awards while on active duty, including an expeditionary combat medal, a Global War on Terror medal, a National Defense Medal, a Korean Defense Medal, and multiple Navy achievement medals. While In the Navy, he was also the assistant wrestling coach at Robert E Lee High School. He's a Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under 6th-degree black belt Gustavo Machado, Darrell Trains At Gustavo Machado Norfolk under the 4th-degree black belt, and Former Marine Professor Mark Sausser. He went to school for psychology at American Military University and for criminal justice at ECPI University. Language: en-us Genres: News, News Commentary, Politics Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Legalizing Death Or Protecting Life
Episode 495
Friday, 19 December, 2025
Send us a textA single week can redraw moral boundaries. When New York and Illinois announced support for “Medical Aid in Dying,” the language sounded compassionate, but the shift was seismic: freedom recast as control over life’s endpoint, medicine repositioned to facilitate death, and “autonomy” installed as the supreme value. We trace what that framing means in practice, why euphemisms matter, and how policy teaches culture what to accept as normal.We unpack the promised safeguards—adult age limits, terminal diagnoses, repeated requests—and ask the harder question: what counts as voluntary when bills mount, caregivers strain, and the vulnerable fear becoming a burden? Then we look north. Canada’s MAID began narrow and widened to include suffering untethered from foreseeable death, with proposals to extend to mental illness alone. The pattern repeats across Belgium and the Netherlands: once the line moves, categories soften, incentives tilt, and death becomes a system option.Along the way, we reflect on how a culture of death doesn’t stay contained to clinics or statutes. Despair listens when society calls death “care.” We honor victims by name, consider the moral spillover from policy to personal choices, and argue for a different vision of dignity rooted in belonging, presence, and community. Autonomy without limits isolates; love with obligations sustains. Choosing life is not naïve—it’s disciplined solidarity: palliative care that comforts, mental health access that persists, families and neighbors who refuse to disappear when pain doesn’t yield to quick fixes.If this conversation challenged your assumptions or gave you language for a hard debate, share it with someone you trust. Subscribe, leave a review, and tell us: where should a humane society draw the line—and how will you show up for someone who’s suffering? Support the show
